What is A Hard Day's Night / How I Won the War about?

Name: A Hard Day's Night / How I Won the War
Genre: Comedy,Music/Performing Arts

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, 1964, Miramax, 85 min. Director Richard Lester's comedy captured the Beatles at their best, clowning like the new Marx Bros. and set the tone for the Sixties revolution. From the restless, handheld camerawork and slight-of-hand jumpcut editing, writer Alun Owen's surreal day-in-the-life script and George Martin's sprightly score to the Beatles themselves - exuberantly singing "Can't Buy Me Love," "She Loves You" and ten other Beatles classics -- this is the essence of the monochromatic early Sixties. HOW I WON THE WAR, 1967, MGM Repertory, 110 min. Director Richard Lester recruited John Lennon for this satire on war movies, featuring Michael Crawford as an unaware idiot charged with building a cricket pitch behind enemy lines during World War II. HOW I WON THE WAR exudes 1960s anti-establishment tone, featuring abrupt time shifts, jump-cutting and Lester’s patented blend of biting wit and surreal slapstick that presaged Monty Python.

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What is A Hard Day's Night / How I Won the War about?: A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, 1964, Miramax, 85 min. Director Richard Lester's comedy captured the Beatles at their best, clowning like the new Marx Bros. and set the tone for the Sixties revolution. From the restless, handheld camerawork and slight-of-hand jumpcut editing, writer Alun Owen's surreal day-in-the-life script and George Martin's sprightly score to the Beatles themselves - exuberantly singing "Can't Buy Me Love," "She Loves You" and ten other Beatles classics -- this is the essence of the monochromatic early Sixties.

HOW I WON THE WAR, 1967, MGM Repertory, 110 min. Director Richard Lester recruited John Lennon for this satire on war movies, featuring Michael Crawford as an unaware idiot charged with building a cricket pitch behind enemy lines during World War II. HOW I WON THE WAR exudes 1960s anti-establishment tone, featuring abrupt time shifts, jump-cutting and Lester’s patented blend of biting wit and surreal slapstick that presaged Monty Python.